LAT Terminal Server Manager for Ultrix

[David C. White]

In article <7683 at cbmvax.UUCP> grr at cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>In article <1989Aug16.233014.9741 at acd4.UUCP> mjb at acd4.UUCP ( Mike Bryan          ) writes:
>> 
>> Does anyone know of a software package which would allow an Ultrix
>> host to maintain and control the setup of DECservers?  We would like

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>As far as I know there is nothing available to do this...
>
>> ... (DEC does provide a Terminal Server Manager product for VMS,
>> but not Ultrix.  *Sigh*)

I'm rather fortunate (dubious choice of words) that we have VMS systems
in the bean-counting side of the house and they gave me privileges to
use TSM, LTM, and RBMS so I can control terminal servers, lan traffic
monitors and DEC LANbridges used on our predominately TCP/IP network on
the engineering side!  If I didn't have access to a VMS system, these
devices would make good boat anchors since there is no way to get
to a LTM or DEC bridge to do anything via Ultrix.

>This seems to be one of those areas, where for all the polite noises DEC
>makes about equal time for VMS and Ultrix, they have decided not to support
>certain functionality, excpept on a VMS platform.

Amen.  They tossed us DECwrite for the VAXstation platforms, but kept
the spreadsheet and graphics stuff that goes with it under the VMS
umbrella.

There is a rather humerous twist to all of this.  I'm looking at
changing our Vitalink TransLAN 350's to TransPATH 350's so I can get
the TCP/IP routing capabilities, and in the course of doing so, found
out about a package for mananging and monitoring Vitalinks *AND* DEC
LANbridges called 802 WANmanager.  Guess what it runs on?  VAXstation
platforms under Ultrix only!  They even had a statement in their
literature that a Unix-based platform was the best choice for a network
management tool.  I wonder if DEC and Vitalink are still on speaking
terms.  :-)
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